Re: Programmers Text Editor

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:38:18PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >My vim (not vi) tells me at the bottom of the screen.  Right now it
> >says:
> >
> >-- INSERT --                                      13,66   All
> 
> Yeah, that's the case on maybe a third of the systems I use.  (For me  
> vi is usually an 'editor of last resort,' used on things like rescue  
> CDs that don't have any other visual editor.  So the version I'm  
> using is often a very stripped-down one.)
> 
 
That's why I'm suggesting Vim and not vi.  There's also gvim (and other
gui layers) but I'm not a gui guy :)

Since it is a programmer's editor you want, why not write one?

Start with the man page.

Then the user's manual.

Then write a program that does what the docs say.

Doug.